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...more she pays and the smaller her purchase, the happier we can be. That proves that she has almost conquered need for good. Just a little, ever so little more and it will be done. Ten million trillion zillion dollars for a jeweled silk-and-leather nail file case. Phew! We're almost there. Very soon we'll never need anything more ever again. We have solved necessity and in those very stores, the richest and the plushest ones, we are about to become God Himself...

Author: By Richard E. Hyland, | Title: No Country for Old Men | 6/29/1970 | See Source »

...There were other nosy queries, but at last they were done and the searing TV lights went off. Gasped Daisy, better known as Princess Margrethe, 25, who will some day be Queen of Denmark, of the Wends and the Goths, Duchess of Slesvig, Holstein, Stormarn, Ditmarsken, Lauenborg and Oldenborg: "Phew! That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 25, 1966 | 2/25/1966 | See Source »

...Aren't you the big spender. Let's see it. . . Wrong color. Phew. It stinks...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Ten North Muncie | 1/19/1961 | See Source »

...over Candidate George E. Brown). The truth was that the cheers were more for a party decision than for ruddy, white-thatched Nye Bevan himself. Said a Mine Union leader: "We thought he'd be better cornered in office than left wild outside." Sighed a delegate: "Phew, unity at last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Room at the Fireside | 10/15/1956 | See Source »

...runs in his first 32 hits [of his three first basemen. Casey is now talking about Ed Robinson]. So they say he won't be an outfielder [now, Joe Collins], but I'm not afraid to stick him in the outfield in the '53 series, and phew! What do they say in Brooklyn about me using a first baseman in the outfield? But he does me a good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: That Fella | 10/3/1955 | See Source »

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